Palace offers deals for Durangoans
To show appreciation for the local customers who keep it going through the dreary months, The Palace Restaurant is offering daily specials for $8 through April.
You have your choice of three full-sized meals that change each week. Recently, the savory grilled lamb burger topped with feta cheese and served with a house salad was a favorite at our table and the shrimp Caesar provided a garlicky hit to the traditional Romaine-based salad.
This week, you have your choice of three hearty sandwiches. The Italian meatball sub is made completely in-house, down to the hoagie roll, and features handmade meatballs, mozzarella and marinara. The grilled cheese is stuffed with cheddar and swiss and served on basil- and Parmesan-encrusted bread, and the Mediterranean veggie wrap is full of healthful romaine, cucumber, tomatoes, olives and feta cheese and folded into a flour tortilla. All come with a choice of french fries or salad. (Try the truffle frites, they’re worth the splurge.)
And if you’re really splurging, The Palace has one of the most extensive lists of wines by the glass in town.
Learn to process and prepare food safely
The local extension office will offer food safety training for food service managers and producers of cottage foods starting next week.
Developed by the National Restaurant Association, the certification is good for five years once a participant passes the test.
The class will be held April 15 in the Florida room at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 N. Main Ave. The exam will be given April 16.
The cost of the certification is $150. Call Wendy Rice at the extension office, 382-6461, to register.
Local honey wanted
The Durango Farmers Market needs a few good bees to get it through the summer season, or a few thousand, but who’s counting?
After The Bee Tree left, market manager Cody Reinheimer went seeking a local apiary, or even a cooperative of beekeepers, to keep the tradition of supplying local honey alive.
“Keeping bees is labor intensive,” he said, “but just like other agriculture, you put in some energy and you get good whole foods.”
If you make your own honey or know someone who does, shoot Reinheimer an email at dfmmanager@durangofarmersmarket.com.
Pamela Hasterok
